International Public Procurement: Innovation and Knowledge Sharing

Thai, Khi V.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13434-5_1

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“…Procurement in the public sector is often seen as playing a less strategic role than in the private sector, as it is generally regarded as an operational means to an end to deliver goods and services that are required by governments (Thai, 2015).…”

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“…Comparatively little attention has been paid to public procurement organization, especially at the local government level (McManus 1991;Murray 2001;, with only a few studies explicitly addressing how procurement departments should be organized (e.g. Thai and Piga 2007;Kamann, 2007;Glock and Broens 2013). Thus, private procurement studies are also reviewed below, partly due to the paucity of public procurement studies on organizational design, and partly because the elevation of the procurement department to a strategic value adding-function has been noted in numerous private sector studies (e.g., Carter and Narasimhan 1996;Carr and Pearson 2002;Gonzalez-Benito 2007;Luzzini and Ronchi, 2016;Tchackenko et al, 2017).…”

Section: Literature Review Of the Dimensions Of Procurement Departmenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to OECD data, public procurement represents a substantial proportion of government expenditure (spanning from 20% to 45% in 2015) and national GDP (from 6% to 21% in 2015), giving procurement decisions a strategic role in modern economies, rather than the traditional and operational perspective of "spending public money on goods and services" (OECD, 2017). Even though public procurement has received growing academic attention (Thai 2015) there is still a significant lack of research on several aspects of public procurement when compared to the overwhelming proportion of purchasing and supply studies in the private sector (Verma et al 2005;Tadelis, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Which shape fits best? Designing the organizational form of local government procurement

Patrucco

Walker

Luzzini

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Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

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The way that public procurement activities are organized has an impact on the performance of public institutions. By reviewing the literature on public procurement organization dimensions this study offers a conceptual framework for public procurement organizational design, distinguishing between the macro, micro and process level dimensions. The framework is tested across the procurement departments of 15 local governments in Wales and Italy. We identify six alternative organizational configurations, differing in their level of centralization and their procurement status within the institution. Their suitability and potential for redesign depend on several internal and external contextual factors (goals, government decision, regulation, geographical environment) in line with the contingency view of organizational design. AbstractThe way that public procurement activities are organized has an impact on the performance of public institutions. By reviewing the literature on public procurement organization dimensions this study offers a conceptual framework for public procurement organizational design, distinguishing between the macro, micro and process level dimensions. The framework is tested across the procurement departments of 15 local governments in Wales and Italy. We identify six alternative organizational configurations, differing in their level of centralization and their procurement status within the institution. Their suitability and potential for redesign depend on several internal and external contextual factors (goals, government decision, regulation, geographical environment) in line with the contingency view of organizational design.

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Section: Literature Review Of the Dimensions Of Procurement Departmenmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Which shape fits best? Designing the organizational form of local government procurement

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Luzzini

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Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

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“…While public procurement is emerging as an important topic for research (Thai & Piga, 2007), its emphasis differs to for‐profit procurement and SCM. Public sector supply chain management tends toward more macro‐ and mesoeconomic understanding of supply markets, compared to firm‐based SCM that tends to be more focused on the microeconomics of firms’ direct connectedness.…”

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Discontinuous Wefts: Weaving a More Interconnected Supply Chain Management Tapestry

Harland

2021

J Supply Chain Manag

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The COVID‐19 crisis quickly drew attention to shortages of critical supplies in complex, global healthcare, and food supply chains, despite emergency and pandemic plans existing in many countries. Borders and factories closed through lockdowns and slowly reopened under different working arrangements, causing supply chains to struggle to respond to this global crisis, with severe impact on GDPs internationally. Ironically, despite global communications technologies, global political structures, and the immense capability of humans, the only true global actor in this crisis is a virus, one of the simplest, most dependent forms of life. Supply chain management research and practice contains threads of knowledge and understanding that are vital to mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery in global crises; we just have not woven them together yet. This essay proposes a more interconnected approach to supply chain management to tackle these current and future global crises, weaving together understanding of supply markets, public procurement, humanitarian aid supply chain management, network and systems thinking, and global stewardship, with the more traditional conceptualizations of firm‐based supply chain management. Questions are posed to illustrate current discontinuous wefts of knowledge to explore how weaving a more interconnected, systems thinking‐based approach to supply chain management might stimulate research to support coordination of future global supply preparedness.

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“…Firstly, as an instance of public procurement, the buyer-provider dyad can ultimately be viewed as a principal-agent relationship (Jensen & Meckling, 1976;Lane, 2005;Thai & Piga, 2007), whereby, a government agency contracts a private company to deliver specific services to the public. This ascribes the buying side a crucial market-orienting role.…”

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Market Orientation in Public Service—A Comparison Between Buyers and Providers

Molander

Fellesson

Friman

2017

Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing

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Public services have been subjected to processes of deregulation, competition, and privatization in many countries worldwide. One popular reform has involved focusing on competitive procurement. This context, where public and private organizations jointly deliver the service in a dyad, makes the market orientation of public services highly complex. The main elements of market orientationintelligence generation, intelligence dissemination and responsiveness-have shown themselves to be valid and of significance in both the private and public sectors. Nevertheless, the empirical context of the public sector involves a complexity that has been poorly addressed in market orientation research. In this study, we research the Swedish public transport industry and survey buyer and provider organizations in order to determine how market-orientated activities are approached in public-private service dyads. We present three theoretically-underpinned relationship types-buyer dominated, provider dominated and collaborative-which we suggest as having implications for market-oriented activities. A survey of public transport authorities' (buyers, n = 48) and operators' (providers, n = 49) market orientation activities reveals the concurrent prevalence of characteristics from all three relationship types, as both parties try to dominate the relationship while also engaging in collaborative efforts. Drawing on our theoretical framework and our empirical results, we conclude that there are legitimate differences in the perspectives of buyers and providers, and that these differences, if acknowledged and properly managed, can provide valuable resources in the development of a joint market orientation in complex public-private settings.

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International Public Procurement: Innovation and Knowledge Sharing

Cited by 19 publications

References 17 publications

Which shape fits best? Designing the organizational form of local government procurement

Which shape fits best? Designing the organizational form of local government procurement

Discontinuous Wefts: Weaving a More Interconnected Supply Chain Management Tapestry

Market Orientation in Public Service—A Comparison Between Buyers and Providers

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